Language/Scottish-gaelic/Vocabulary/Numbers

How to count in Scottish Gaelic

➡ In today's lesson you will learn how to count in the Scottish Gaelic language, mainly spoken in Scotland and the Hebrides islands.

You may want to learn the numbers in Gaelic. It’s one of the first things that anyone learns in any language.

Happy learning!

Cardinal Numbers in Scottish Gaelic

01-10

The numbers one to ten are quite simple in Gaelic

Number	Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig)
1	aon
2	dhà
3	trì
4	ceithir
5	còig
6	sia
7	seachd
8	ochd
9	naoi
10	deich

11-20

The numbers 11-20 are also quite straightforward in Gaelic. The word deug is added after the number, just like the English suffix "-teen". The only exception for this is the number twelve. After the number two, the word after is always lenited (or an h is added after the first letter), deug is no exception, and so it becomes dheug.

Number	Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig)
11	aon deug
12	dhà dheug
13	trì deug
14	ceithir deug
15	còig deug
16	sia deug
17	seachd deug
18	ochd deug
19	naoi deug
20	fichead

30-90

Number	Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig)
30	deich air fhichead, trithead
40	dà fhichead, ceathrad
50	dà fhichead 's deich, leth-cheud, caogad
60	trì fichead, siagad
70	trì fichead 's deich, seachad
80	ceithir fichead, ochdad
90	ceithir fichead 's deich, naochad

100-1 billion

Number	Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig)
100	ceud
1,000	mìle
1,000,000	millean
1,000,000,000	billean

Ordinal Numbers in Scottish Gaelic

Number	Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig)	English
1o	ciad	first
2o	dàrna / dara	second
3o	treas	third

mìr - fractions

Number	Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig)	English
1/2	leth	half
1/4	cairteal, ceathramh	quarter
%	ceudad	percent
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